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Mente Group Extends Bizav Services, Locations
By: Jerry Siebenmark
Caption: Dallas-based Mente Group's services and locations expansion includes an alliance with Germany's ProAir Aviation.
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Mente Group has expanded to include offices on both coasts of the U.S. and in Eastern Europe, as well as increased its menu of services, the Dallas-based business aircraft and aviation consultancy announced today. The firm has new consultants in seven additional U.S. cities and entered an alliance overseas that extends its work to the European continent, it said.

“Strategically, we have broadened our consulting reach beyond simply business jet transactions to encompass a comprehensive array of aviation specialties and that means finding the industry's best experts across the country and the world,” Mente Group CEO Brian Proctor said. “We are now more than purely transactions specific, to include talent management, asset management, technical services, strategy, and program management.” 

Its new U.S. locations and their functions are Boston, where its East Coast managing director resides; Chicago, where it has asset management expertise; Denver, which specializes in aircraft completions and program management; New York, where its head of transactions is located; Portland, which is home to its West Coast leader; San Francisco, where its talent management expert is located; and Scottsdale, Arizona, where its Central U.S. leader is based. 

Additionally, Mente has formed a pact with aircraft charter, sales, and management company ProAir Aviation, which has headquarters at Stuttgart Airport (STR) in Germany and operations extending to Hungary, Russia, Turkey, and Ukraine.